Marco d'Itri wrote:
I have been told by upstream maintainers of one of my packages and by prominent developers of other distributions that supporting a standalone /usr is too much work and no other distribution worth mentioning does it (not Ubuntu, not Fedora, not SuSE). I know that Debian supports this, but I also know that maintaning forever large changes to packages for no real gain sucks. So, does anybody still see reasons to continue supporting a standalone /usr?
On several server (and my desktop) I mount /usr as a separate partition and read-only (with some hook in /etc/apt/ to temporary remount it). Could you explain us why you want to discontinue supporting a standalone /usr? A partial invalid reason list: - other distro want it! (we are not other distro) - it is easier! (we are hard men/women) ciao cate